Improvement in postal-cards



W. J. LUDLOW.

Postal Card.

Na. 322,041. Patnted Dec. 19, 1871.

'Imaniar PATENT OFFICE.

WASHDTGTON I. LUDLOW, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

lMPROVEMENT IN POSTAL-CARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 122,041, dated December19, 1871.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, WASHINGTON I. LUDLOW, of Cleveland, county ofCuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Postal-Cards 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a fulland exact description of the same.

My invention consists of a postal-card possessing superior advantages toall now in use, composed of a single piece of paper, bristol-board, ortheir equivalent, folded at or near its center, the ends or sides ofwhich may be guinmed as may bedesired upon the iii`ii`ef""sTideF-- 4Figure 1 is a perspective View of niy improved postal-card partly open.Fig. 2 is a view showing the same entirely open.

In carrying out my invention I use a piece of paper, bristol-board, ortheir equivalent, folded at or near the center so as to bring the edgesclosely together.

The peculiar advantages of this postal-card are such that messages orother matter may be written on the inner side and the card Sealed andaddressed to any desired place, thus saving the trouble of procuring orobtaining the common envelope, and at the same time securin g the sameprivacy of the sealed envelope, which is not the case in the ordinarypostal-card, consistiug of a single card with the stamp and writing uponeither side. If desired, the name of any person, firm, or corporationmay be engraved or printed upon the opposite side of the card from thestamp and address, thus securing a means of advertisement 5 or, in caseof the card being miscarried or not called for, it may be returned tothe party sending it. In connection with this there may be placed uponany portion of the card a monogram of any desired configuration ot' theparty sending it, or the monograui may be used with or without theadvertisement, and the United States postage-stamp may be printed uponthe card the same as is usual in the common envelope or \vrapper now inuse.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as. new and useful, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Apostal-card folded at or near its center, with the edges gumined,substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a postal card folded at or near itscenter and gummed upon its inside edge, the ends Of-the said card beingleft open, as herein set forth.

W. I. LUDLOW.

Witnesses:

JAS. L. NORRIS,

